Foreign News: Beaux Gestes

"What will
become of Albert and François?" Frenchmen asked each other last week
with sympathetic little shrugs, hoped the answer of Fate would not be
too hard. The two old servants were Georges Clémenceau's valet and
chauffeur. His last act was to draw their hands to his lips and kiss
them, just before he said: "I want no women and I want no tears! Let me
die before men" (TIME, Dec. 2).

Even better than the Tiger, the Chief of Police of Paris knows the value
of a perfect valet. Monsieur...